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Maintaining a horse pasture
Here is the key. If the cut grass can dry out the horses can eat it without problems. If the grass clumps up and remains wet, it will ferment and that is bad. A horse that eats that can get colic and die from it.
As far as eating too much grain, what can happen is two things, if eating too much grain, or over indulging in gran, a horse can colic, if given too much grain daily, a horse can get laminitis, or also known as founder, and it is very bad. What happens is the horses hoof gets too much blood flow to it, and the hoof wall seperates from the rest of the foot, and the bone that is embedded in the hoof can fall through the bottom of the hoof. It is a very painful disease and can permanantly lame or even kill a horse. Eating cut wet grass wont cause this condition, but eating a lot of Spring grass can. The sugars in in the young early year grass is too much for the horses system to handle.
OTOH, just let the horse out there and eat the pasture down! I wish I had some pasture for my horses, I had to go and buy two round bales because of the drought, we no longer have any grass in our pastures.
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Here is the key. If the cut grass can dry out the horses can eat it without problems. If the grass clumps up and remains wet, it will ferment and that is bad. A horse that eats that can get colic and die from it.
As far as eating too much grain, what can happen is two things, if eating too much grain, or over indulging in gran, a horse can colic, if given too much grain daily, a horse can get laminitis, or also known as founder, and it is very bad. What happens is the horses hoof gets too much blood flow to it, and the hoof wall seperates from the rest of the foot, and the bone that is embedded in the hoof can fall through the bottom of the hoof. It is a very painful disease and can permanantly lame or even kill a horse. Eating cut wet grass wont cause this condition, but eating a lot of Spring grass can. The sugars in in the young early year grass is too much for the horses system to handle.
OTOH, just let the horse out there and eat the pasture down! I wish I had some pasture for my horses, I had to go and buy two round bales because of the drought, we no longer have any grass in our pastures.
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You might want to consider having the farmer cut and bale it for you. Would save you some money down the road. Also if you let the horses graze in that field, make sure the manure is either picked out regulary, or spread out well to prevent the accumulation of more weeds and the killing of good grasses and alfalfa. I have a small strip that is a hay field, and I usually get one or two round bales out of it every cutting, but looks like this year there will only be one, the drought has hit us hard here.
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